Washed Out - Feel It All Around

Has anyone heard this yet? My friend gave me an ep called Life of Leisure and High Times. I like it,

I also notice Aeroplane included Belong on their mix. Here's his myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/thebabeinthewoods

My friend described him as Shoegazing dance music, and I was thinking it would be another Postal Service. But the song Feel It All Around won me over.

love this dude

It's dreamy/trippy.

yeah i dig this

only 19 years old.
this ep is great!

ilxor sleep told me to check this guy out, I'm feelin it

kinda like a Nite Jewel vibe

Feel It All Around is excellent

yes, i like it too. is there more than the "Life of Leisure" ep? kinda bugs me the way the tracks just cut off at the end, but why quibble?

Air meets 10cc in a dance production = great+ a future "best new music" in pfrk.
what else can you ask for?

wait: people dance to this?

i don't know,maybe it's too slow and trippy, but a part of the production reminds mea little of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTR4qko64_o
which people used to dance to, 1000 years ago

there's a newer EP called "High Times" as alluded to above, you can get it from blogs such as this one: http://nonameleeds.blogspot.com/2009/10/washed-out-high-times-2009.html

i'm pretty sure people used to dance to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dF3PE8S1mA

and this one http://robotsinheat.com/temp/Got%20To%20Get%20Up.mp3 (from Change)

he's my favorite right now. went on a roadtrip and we listened to the Life of Leisure ep about a million times.

the only song i heard used a lot of weird compression that made it near-unlistenable, on headphones at least

I wouldn't listen to This very loudly on headphones.

I wouldn't like to hear hear this loudly in the right club.

wouldn't=would!!

not the only typo

Last night was a long night.....

i like this way better than ducktails tbh

Sounds like something I would have downloaded from Napster around 2000 or 2001.. It reminds me of Napster. I'm not sure why exactly..

yeah it definitely sounds like napster music. what?

i love the life of leisure cover

I don't know why it reminds me of napster.. I remember downloading random tracks recommended from NME's "singles of the week" thing, and their top 50 singles of the year.. a lot of it was electronic music at the time. That might have something to do with it. .. not saying that as a bad thing either. But somehow this song makes me nostalgic for 2000-2002.

good stuff

s'good!

shoegazing dance musics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY1WZR6ClqM

i really like Curve but think almost every other shoegaze band: Boo Radleys, Moose, Ride, Slowdive, Sweverdriver, Spiritualized, Lush and Catherine Wheel were much, much better.

that being said i'm really starting to like this Washed Out record...tbd.

It's OK, really. Though it is just kind of The Field + Air Supply with some woozy Chapterhouse vocals. I wouldn't call that danceable shoegaze. More like easy listening gone awry.

Too many of those stupid dreaded b-word bongos, tho.

there's a newer EP called "High Times" as alluded to above

having heard both now I think Life of Leisure is a lot better. High Times sounds more like trip-hop or something

he's playing tomorrow in new york btw
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2778274&pl=santos

only 19 years old.

the New Yorker said he is 26 fwiw

I think I like Life of Leisure more as well. High Times does have a trip hop feel, esp towards the end. Does anyone know if he uses mainly samples or if he's programing most of this music. I'd like to hear him do more housey and less trip hop music.

jacob, i posted 2 of his samples upthread

I think you misunderstood my question. I was asking if his music is sample based or not. I have both releases.

haha I think you misunderstood the answer, watch the youtube upthread of Gary Low - I Want You. sounds like for Feel It All Around he looped the beginning of that and slowed it down

and the post right below the gary low is the sample to "Get Up"

Oh, I stand corrected. Sorry.

pwned

It's been happening to me often around these parts.

Wow, I just lost a whole lotta respect for him. I mean, it's one thing to lift a sample and recontextualise it, but to take everything - backing, lead and all - and just whack a space echo on it? Not feeling it.

mannn i got nothing against rad samples and some bongos. it's not like i could really stomach the vocals on the original gary low track anyways

these samples are recontextualized

countdown to discussion of "culture jamming" and plunderphonics in five, four, three, two . .

damn cant believe this was sampled... this is worse than balloon boy

rip my innocence

I wasn't really liking the song that much to start with, so it was a bit of a letdown to find that the only bits of it I liked were lifted wholesale from somewhere else. I think I dislike the Chapterhouse vocals even more than the 80s crooner. Your mileage may vary.

Don't answer him when he asks "would I like this?" It's the only way he'll learn.

Or alternatively say "yes" when you really mean "no".

I've never heard him! And I've not asked 'would I like (x)?' in ages! Can't listen at work and quite fancy buying a CD on the way home in 2 minutes.

X are also great

lol.

- Take a loop from some early '90s pop/house/swing track, Ace Of Base maybe?
- Add a bunch of digital reverb. Make sure it's nice and smudgy so you can't quite make out any of the sounds
- Apply some cruddy software distortion - remember, you don't want this to sound too good, now
- Oh, and time stretch it a bit too while you're at it
- Wash, rinse, repeat
- Take a Valium and mutter some MBV-esque vocals that sound like "Wan wan wan" over the top

And you're done!

Have you even heard this record?

at the very least, dude writes catchy melodies

God, that Sandra song way upthread is so immortal... I'm not feeling Washed Out too much. It's like the soggier end of shoegaze, but with purposefully degraded production values and even LESS rhythmic vitality (I didn't actually think that was possible). Maybe that's just what chillwave in general feels like, though (I've managed to avoid it almost entirely)? The vocal melodies just kind of formlessly drape themselves around the chord sequences like limp strands of spaghetti. I don't know, I'm just judging from 8 or 9 YouTube clips; I'm sure it sounds better on an actual Urban Outfitters sound system.

the new Washed Out is not that bad an album, but def a letdown when compared to his previous EPs, which were really great and pretty much define that so-called "chillwave" for me.

I think this guy made one perfect track (Feel It All Around)

well maybe two, Belong is IMO very close to being perfect too, it's actually one of my favourite songs from the 00s! dude does have a hand for melody.

lamp otm there is something appealingly bland about this.

liking this

yeah i really like this, i think its better and more sophis than anything he's done before.

more beautiful, more portentously empty.

dude is talented proper

haven't fully delved into the second lp but the first one still sounds so great, esp. "you'll see it"!

don't think neon indian record holds up as well two years later. that guy has a knack for writing good pop songs, but for whatever reasons that record does not hold up as well at this point imo

those dudes should form chillwave supergroup obv

btw he apparently once had a music project with his mate Chaz Bundick (aka Toro y Moi), now that was a chillwave supergroup

didn't know that, ok

yeh, prefer VEGA to neon indian and expect i'm not alone there

of course you're not, "No Reasons" is my favoutite thing Palomo's ever done!

Neon Indian is a fucking hack, he stealeth his hooks

And his records sound terrible

Lol it sounds like I have something personal against him; it's more just his buzz track sampling a big chunk of a rundgren song and adding bad vocals

He opened for Sleigh Bells - I left & got some drinks/cigs as one can only take so much shoulder thrusting

also the bang-bang-indie girl was paying me no heed

http://i.imgur.com/klzFO.gif

plax is on the mark. Prettier, less meaningful. Nothing like better production value to show that you write the same song over and over.

Paracosm sounds so beautiful.

Sounds like an album I will be playing a lot.

"All I Know" is gorgeous, and sounds fantastic cranked up driving around with the windows down.

I sometimes get overly self-conscious when I blast music in the car with the windows down. I usually end up toning it down, especially on red lights. I'll have to work up to it.

not feeling the new lp at all, what am i missing, guys?

im w/ u

"don't give up" is ok

The title track and "All over Now" are really nice.

I love how often this band tours and comes to Texas!

lots of lols itt

you ppl just never stop having opinions

― -( ☃)*( ☃)- (Lamp), Wednesday, May 4, 2011 6:04 AM

paracosm really left me cold! maybe i should give it another shot. i guess i think maybe it's been diminishing returns for them. or did chillwave just sound fresher to me in 2009?

you otm - washed out been washed up since trying to do things 'properly' :(

that must be why their show here last week was sold out.

this song is so hilarious and wonderful

tombot get ready to have your fucking mind blown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEVpQKGjn-c

woah so did he just slow this song down wtf?

yep

i had no idea

hey he also added some woozy effects

i always heard that song and thought "this bass line is sick, how'd he come up w that?" "these drum fills are incredible, is he playing those?" etc. i guess he still is playing those. but it's by playing a record someone else made.

proto-vaporwave

i wonder how much of that Portlandia money goes to Gary Low (a lot, i hope)

i always heard that song and thought "this bass line is sick, how'd he come up w that?" "these drum fills are incredible, is he playing those?" etc. i guess he still is playing those. but it's by playing a record someone else made.

same, i originally thought that it was at least a blend of samples from different sources & playing.

i think for his second album he made a point of playing everything, idk if anyone cared by then.

So they released a new album in August and I didn't even know!

https://washedout.bandcamp.com/album/purple-noon

It's a late-night low-key affair and I'm really liking it so far... leaning into the Sade vocals

sounds so good walking across a municipal golf course at dusk

_Notes From a Quiet Life_ out June 28 on Sub Pop. Getting '80s teen movie vibes from "The Hardest Part" single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nb-M1GAOX8

Of his more recent years stuff, love 'Miles Lullaby'